Garment form



Dec. 191922.

INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS J. J. GOULD. GARMENT FORM. FILED MAY 21 Patented Dec. 19, 19.22.-

JAY a. scorn, or ennnn ear, Wisconsin.

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' steam or otherwise removing wrinkles from such garments; which will not distort the garment; which will not leave marks upon the pressed or steamed garment; and which may be readily inserted and removed.

Further objects are to provide a resilient garment form which may be inserted within the sleeves of coats or similar articles; which will not be injured by steam or other heated fluid; which may be cheaply and readily manufactured in an inexpensive manner.

Embodiments of the invention areshown in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a View of one formof the garment form.

Fig. 2 is a view of a further form thereof. Fig; 3 is a fragmentary side elevation of a garment with the form inserted in the sleeve.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4l-t of Fig. 3.

The garment form comprises a helical spring 1 whose ends are joined by interlapping the terminalconvolutionsas indie cated at 2 in Fig. 1.. If desired, asmall plug. not shown, may be inserted within these terminal convolutions. A tubular fabric sheath 3 completelyenclosesthe helix and prevents successive convolutions otthe helix from forming creases or ridges in the garment with which it is used.

This garment form may be initially of a circular contour as indicated inFig. l and when inserted within the sleeve may be squeezed into an oval shape. i Fig. 2 shows a further form that this invention may take. This form of the invention is similar to that shown in F ig. 1 with the exception that cords or tapes 4: maybe used to secure the desired oval shape. These flexible members are passed through, the fabric sheath 3 and around one or more of the convolutions of the helix 2. It desired, a plurality of such fastening means sleeve. a

1921. Serial no". 4*?1315.

may be employed. These fastening means allow the formto expand to asize slightly greater than thatof the sleeve to be treated so that the inherent resiliency of the form will expand the sleeve andwill aid in renioving wrinkles therefrom when the'sleeve is treated with steam,

In using the device it. is slightly compressed and slipped into the sleeve of the gaianent. Thereafter the sleeve is placed between the upper and lower members of a steam press and the movable member is brought into close proximity to the sleeve.

Steam is then admitted and passes through the fabric of the sleeve, thus allowing the form to expand due to its inherentresih' iency and remove the wrinkles from the i It is to be noted that when this garment form is nserted within garments such as coat sleeves or similar closed portions that it comprises in effect two side members. H

These members have amaterial cross sectional area and distribute the strains over a larger area of the fabric ofthe garment, thereby avoiding any local gzed stresses. In this manner, a sharp crease is not produced, and, due to thefabric sheath, the individual. convolutions of the helix will not produce undesired ridges in 1 the garment.

I claim: I r

1. A garment former adapted to beinserted within a garment sleeve and to distend the sleeve, said former comprising a hoop formed ot a helical spring with its ends oined and oi size to be distorted when inserted within an ordinary garment sleeve, and a fabric sheath enclosing said spring, sald hoop tend. .4 when distorted to maintain. its normal form and to distend the sleeve substantially "from end to end.

2. A garment former adapted to be inserted within a garment sleeve and to distend the sleeve substantially from end to end preparatory to treating the sleeve with steam to remove wrinkles and comprising a hoop-like fabric tube, means for maintaining the tube distended while permitting the passage of steam therethrough, said means expanding the hoop when the latter isdisy torted upon insertion in a sleeve, the sleeve being thereby distended substantially from endv to end.

A former adapted to. be inserted in a garment sleeve or the like and to distend the sleeve substantially from end to end,

said former comprising a hoop-like fa-brio tube, ahelioal spring in said tube maintaining the same distended, said hoop -.being adapted to extend from substantially end to' end of an ordinary garment sleeve and to be distorted when inserted in the sleeve, the

serted within" a 'sleeve or the like todistendtheseme preparatory to treating the sleeve to remove Wrinkles, said former comprising a hoop formed of a hel cal spring, seld spring being freely and resiliently fiexlble 'in all directions and of eusize'adapted to extend substantially from end to end of an ordinary garment sleeve, said hoop, When lnsertedln a sleeve, permitting bending of the sleeve but being distorted and maintaining the sleeve distendedsubstantially from end to end. i i i i JAY J; GOULD. 

